Nature Communications (May 2022)

High-performance photocatalytic nonoxidative conversion of methane to ethane and hydrogen by heteroatoms-engineered TiO2

  • Wenqing Zhang,
  • Cenfeng Fu,
  • Jingxiang Low,
  • Delong Duan,
  • Jun Ma,
  • Wenbin Jiang,
  • Yihong Chen,
  • Hengjie Liu,
  • Zeming Qi,
  • Ran Long,
  • Yingfang Yao,
  • Xiaobao Li,
  • Hui Zhang,
  • Zhi Liu,
  • Jinlong Yang,
  • Zhigang Zou,
  • Yujie Xiong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30532-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Photocatalytic nonoxidative coupling of methane (NOCM) emerges as an appealing approach for the production of value-added C2 + hydrocarbons and hydrogen. Here the authors propose a heteroatom engineering strategy to prepare Pd single atoms loaded TiO2 for active and selective photocatalytic NOCM.